23-10-2024, 11:26 AM
There's more to Eva-g than I first thought...
Even though it appears only about 160 times in the text, which is almost exactly 1 out of every 1000 characters, it may still tell us something.
The ZL and GC transliterations seem largely consistent about this character.
ZL (v.3a) has 170 and GC (v.2a) has 164. I counted these by searching for the STA code B4.
The RF file (v.1a) which is an automated merger of these two has 166.
Using the RF file in the following, and counting uncertain spaces as spaces, g is followed by a space (or end of line) in 95% of all cases.
What precedes it is more diverse. I remembered wrong when I thought that this is mostly Eva-d.
Most frequent are (count / %):
a 41 / 24.7%
o 27 / 16.3%
e 27 / 16.3%
l 18 / 10.8%
d 14 / 8.4%
(spc) 13 / 7.8%
This last case is interesting. Most of these are g at line end preceded by a space.
Having seen some (but not all) of the evidence, I am indeed inclined to believe that the g can have different functions or roles. Sometimes it just appears like a meaningless addition or null. In other cases it appears to be a beautified y, but I won't exclude other substitutions as well.
What's really important is that, in spite of the similarity between the independent transliterations, a visual inspection of the actual handwriting shows that there are different forms of g. One clearly has a c shape to start with, while the other is more similar to m. The same situation as with Eva-r and Eva-s really.
To be continued...
Even though it appears only about 160 times in the text, which is almost exactly 1 out of every 1000 characters, it may still tell us something.
The ZL and GC transliterations seem largely consistent about this character.
ZL (v.3a) has 170 and GC (v.2a) has 164. I counted these by searching for the STA code B4.
The RF file (v.1a) which is an automated merger of these two has 166.
Using the RF file in the following, and counting uncertain spaces as spaces, g is followed by a space (or end of line) in 95% of all cases.
What precedes it is more diverse. I remembered wrong when I thought that this is mostly Eva-d.
Most frequent are (count / %):
a 41 / 24.7%
o 27 / 16.3%
e 27 / 16.3%
l 18 / 10.8%
d 14 / 8.4%
(spc) 13 / 7.8%
This last case is interesting. Most of these are g at line end preceded by a space.
Having seen some (but not all) of the evidence, I am indeed inclined to believe that the g can have different functions or roles. Sometimes it just appears like a meaningless addition or null. In other cases it appears to be a beautified y, but I won't exclude other substitutions as well.
What's really important is that, in spite of the similarity between the independent transliterations, a visual inspection of the actual handwriting shows that there are different forms of g. One clearly has a c shape to start with, while the other is more similar to m. The same situation as with Eva-r and Eva-s really.
To be continued...